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1. Immerse the gel completing SDS-PAGE in transfer buffer and prepare a sheet of nitrocellulose (NC) membrane, 4 sheets of absorbent filter paper and 2 support pads.
2. Immerse nitrocellulose membrane soaked with distilled water in advance of the transfer buffer solution for 3 minutes. Also immerse absorbent filter paper in the transfer buffer solution.
3. Assemble transfer sandwich as following with immersed gel, membranes, filter papers, support pads.
Support pad | 2 sheets absorbent paper | gel | nc membrane | 2 sheets absorbent paper | support pad
4. Put assembled sandwich in the transfer tank with the membrane facing towards the red-electrode.
5. Transfer for 1 hour at 4℃ at 100 V.
6. When transfer is complete, turn the power off and bring out the sandwich.
7. Bring out nitrocellulose membrane and wash out several times with TBS-T buffer1.
8. Stain the membrane by soaking in Ponceau S solution for 1-2 minutes.
9. Confirm the transferred bands after washing with distilled water to distinguish protein bands well.
10. React with blocking solution2 for 1 hours at room temperature.
11. Treat with diluted primary antibody solution for 4 hours at room temperature.
12. Wash out with TBS-T buffer three times for each time 10 minutes in duration.
13. Add horseradish peroxidase(HRP)-labeled secondary antibody solution and incubate for about 1 hour at room temperature.
14. Wash out with TBS-T buffer three times for 10 minutes each.
15. Add fresh chemiluminescence reagent and incubate for 1 minute.
16. Even after clearing surplus chemiluminescence reagent and drying out remaining wetness with paper towel, expose for 1 minute on plastic wrap for the film not to be moistened. The time for chemiluminescence reagent incubation and file exposure may vary with the antibody used.
1 TBS-T buffer: 0.1M Tris-buffered saline (pH8.0) with 0.1% Tween 20
2 5% non fat dry milk or 5% BSA/TBS-T